Economics Quote by Richard H. Thaler

I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics - there is…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

I began my career as an economics professor but became frustrated because the economic theories I taught in the classroom didn't have any meaning…

— Muhammad Yunus

My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the…

— James Meade

I was a business major in college, so I knew economics.

— Mike Holmgren

I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory of general…

— Gerard Debreu

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

— Herb Ritts

“There is an economy in your mind”

— Nicky Verd

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child.…

— Khaled Hosseini

Economics in college was very poor; I was not very impressed with it. I actually wanted to study statistics. I discovered mathematical statistics as…

— Kenneth Arrow

I have tried to put myself in the position of someone seeing economics for the first time. My goal is to emphasize the material…

— Greg Mankiw

I picked economics at the end of my undergraduate time because it seemed to be a really nice combination of theory, including mathematical theory…

— Michael Spence

“To put it bluntly, the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often…

— Thomas Piketty